FileFront Closes — “48 terabytes of data, historical and user-generated, gone.” Does our every upload deserve eternity? Who would want, take, or be able to support the continued existence of 48T of unprofitable blahblah? If 48T of user-generated content falls in the cloud, does it make a sound? (via waxy)

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My big complaint is that the users had no choice: they were given five days warning to save all of their material from an 8-year-old website.

Service providers, even if they’re free, should feel a certain commitment to the community that kept them alive. Is it that hard to keep an archive of material online for a few months, retrievable only by the people that originally created it?